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Question 41 of 100
A company is building an expense tracking system with the ability for the users to upload images. The existing web servers are just about loaded and as an architect, you do not want to make use of the existing web server to upload the images due to the additional load that it would incur. How can this be handled in a cost-effective manner?
ACreate a secondary S3 bucket. Then, use an AWS Lambda to sync the contents to the primary bucket.
BUse Auto Scaling and increase the capacity as demand increased
CUse Pre-Signed URLs instead to upload the images.
DUse ECS Containers to upload the images.
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Question 42 of 100
You are currently architecting a solution for your company that will make use of API gateways. You want to ensure that you design the API gateway in such a way that latency to requests to the API gateway is reduced. Which of the following things can you ensure is carried out to fulfil this requirement.
AUse AWS API Gateway with CloudFront
BEnable API Gateway Caching
CEnable API Stages
DEnable CORS configuration for the API Gateway
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Question 43 of 100
A user has created a photo editing software and hosted it on EC2. The software accepts requests from the user about the photo format and resolution and sends a message to S3 to enhance the picture accordingly. Which of the below mentioned AWS services will help make a scalable software with the AWS infrastructure in this scenario?
AAWS Glacier
BAWS Elastic Transcoder
CAWS Simple Notification Service
DAWS Simple Queue Service
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Question 44 of 100
A Solutions Architect is designing a solution that retains traffic information between network interfaces. This traffic information will be monitored for anomalies by an InfoSec team using Amazon CloudWatch. What approach should the Architect take?
AMaintain traffic history on each Amazon EC2 instance.
BEnable Amazon VPC Flow Logs.
CEnable CloudTrail for VPC
DEnable Amazon VPC Network Logs
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Question 45 of 100
A company is using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for their secure key management. The company has been recommended that they log all use of their AWS KMS keys. What is the SIMPLEST solution?
AAssociate AWS KMS metrics with Amazon CloudWatch
BUse AWS CloudTrail to log AWS KMS key usage.
CDeploy a monitoring agent to the RDS instances.
DPoll AWS KMS periodically with a scheduled job.
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Question 46 of 100
A Solutions Architect is designing a solution to store a large quantity of event data in Amazon S3. The architect anticipates that the workload will consistently exceed 100 requests each second. What should the architect do in Amazon S3 to optimize performance?
ARandomize the key name prefix
BStore the event data in separate buckets
CRandomize the key name suffix
DUse Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
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Question 47 of 100
Games-R-Us is launching a new game app for mobile devices. Users will log into the game using their existing Facebook account and the game will record player data and scoring information directly to a DynamoDB table. What is the most secure approach for signing requests to the DynamoDB API?
ACreate an IAM user with access credentials that are distributed with the mobile app to sign the requests
BDistribute the AWS root account access credentials with the mobile app to sign the requests
CRequest temporary security credentials using web identity federation to sign the requests
DEstablish cross account access between the mobile app and the DynamoDB table to sign the requests
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Question 48 of 100
You are creating a new online transaction processing (OLTP) application for a small database that is very read intensive. A single table in the database is updated continuous throughout the day, and the delivery at the database performance should be consistent. Which Amazon EBS storage option will achieve the MOST consistent performance to help maintain the performance?
AProvisioned IOP SSD
BGeneral purpose SSD
CCold HDD
DThroughtput Optimized HDD.
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Question 49 of 100
You have a web-style application with a stateless but CPU and memory-intensive web tier running on a cc2.8xlarge EC2 instance inside of a VPC. The instance when under load is having problems returning requests within the SLA as defined by your business. The application maintains its state in a DynamoDB table, but the data tier is properly provisioned and responses are consistently fast. How can you best resolve the issue of the application responses not meeting your SLA?
AAdd another cc2.8xlarge application instance, and put both behind an Elastic Load Balancer
BMove the cc2.8xlarge to the same Availability Zone as the DynamoDB table
CCache the database responses in ElastiCache for more rapid access
DMove the database from DynamoDB to RDS MySQL in scale-out read-replica configuration
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Question 50 of 100
A Solutions Architect needs to use AWS to implement pilot light disaster recovery for a three-tier web application hosted in an on-premises datacenter. Which solution allows rapid provision of a working, fully-scaled production environment?
AContinuously replicate the production database server to Amazon RDS. Use AWS CloudFormation to deploy the application and any additional servers if necessary.
BContinuously replicate the production database server to Amazon RDS. Create one application load balancer and register on-premises servers. Configure ELB Application Load Balancer to automatically deploy Amazon EC2 instances for application and additional servers, if the on-premises application is down.
CUse a scheduled Lambda function to replicate the production database to AWS. Use Amazon Route 53 health checks to deploy the application automatically to Amazon S3, if production is unhealthy.
DUse a scheduled Lambda function to replicate the production database to AWS. Register on-premises servers to an Auto Scaling group and deploy the application to additional servers, if production is unavailable.
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